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Whether any of the relatives of the seamen whose names appeared there were now among the congregation, I knew not; but so many are the unrecorded accidents in the fishery, and so plainly did several women present wear the countenance if not the trappings of some unceasing grief, that I feel sure...

This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.

Affected by the solemnity of the scene, there was a wondering gaze of incredulous curiosity in his countenance.

Shaking off the sleet from my ice-glazed hat and jacket, I seated myself near the door, and turning sideways was surprised to see Queequeg near me.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIAL HARDY, Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan, August 3d, 1833. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW.

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF ROBERT LONG, WILLIS ELLERY, NATHAN COLEMAN, WALTER CANNY, SETH MACY, AND SAMUEL GLEIG, Forming one of the boats' crews OF THE SHIP ELIZA, Who were towed out of sight by a Whale, On the Off-shore Ground in the PACIFIC, December 31st, 1839. THIS MARBLE Is here placed by...

Three of them ran something like the following, but I do not pretend to quote:-- SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN TALBOT Who, at the age of eighteen, was lost overboard, Near the Island of Desolation, off Patagonia, November 1st, 1836. THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS SISTER.

The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

A muffled silence reigned, only broken at times by the shrieks of the storm.

Entering, I found a small scattered congregation of sailors, and sailors' wives and widows.

Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.

The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.

Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this special errand.

I am sure that I did not.

CHAPTER VII. The Chapel. In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot.* *The chapel is Melville's adaptation of the Seaman's Bethel, in New Bedford...

People can't get enough sleep every night? TRUMP

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People off their rockers; we love you too, Ahab.

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